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27 unusual facts about the world


Andrés Granier Melo

The Coalition for the Good of All and its candidate César Raúl Ojeda himself questioned the results of the election before the Federal Electoral Tribunal, that on December 27, 2006 emitted its resolution, declaring seven polling stations annulled, but ratifying the triumph of Granier, and to declare that the Coalition for Good of All failed to show that there were any irregularities.

Antwerp, Victoria

Ellerman named the area after his birthplace, the Belgian city of Antwerp.

Battle of Bautzen

Finally, generals Wittgenstein and Blücher were ordered to stop at Bautzen by Tsar Alexander I and König Frederick William III.

Bernhard van Treeck

Bernhard van Treeck MD (born February 5, 1964, Kempen, Niederrhein) is a German psychiatrist and has led a clinic specialised in addictions and drug-dependency.

Cameri

It is home to a military airfield, now used for maintenance of the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon of the Aeronautica Militare.

County of Portugal

Portugal was acknowledged as an independent kingdom by Pope Alexander III in 1179.

Dance technology

Integration of live dance performance with dance environment (sound, lighting) was pioneered by Mark Coniglio, whose 1989 MidiDancer measured the angular change at several joints on the dancer's body and used the measurements to control music.

Eilat International Film Festival

Guests who have attended the festival include, American actress Valerie Harper, Oscar winner Ari Sandel, cinematographer Adam Greenberg, TV director Jeremy Kagan, leading Hollywood producers Avi Lerner and Dan Dimbort and additionally a host of Israeli leading industry professionals and celebrities.

Helmut Roloff

Roloff was born in Giessen where his father was a university history professor who was a staunch anti-Nazi.

Isaac Briggs

He co-founded the American Board of Agriculture and a cotton mill and manufacturing town at Triadelphia in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Jabalpur – Mumbai Garibrath Express

The service was introduced and extension was proposed by Lalu Prasad Yadav (former railway minister) in year,2008 without its inauguration.

Joe Nieuwendyk

An accomplished box lacrosse player, Nieuwendyk led the Whitby Warriors to the 1984 Minto Cup national junior championship before focusing exclusively on hockey.

Laurentides

The Laurentides still offer a weekend escape for Montrealers and tourists from New England to Ontario, though with the building of a major highway through the area in the 1970s (Autoroute 15), the area has experienced a lot of growth.

Lole

Carlos Reutemann (born 1942), Argentine retired racing driver and politician nicknamed "Lole"

Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

A state-of-the-art Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) provides degaussing services, including ranging and the removal of permanent magnetism for submarines of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy, as well as for steel-hulled surface warships.

Orbital Express

Orbital Express was a space mission managed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a team led by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).

Philip Henry Muntz

The two brothers were selected as part of an eight-person delegation to represent the English Midlands at a "general convention of the industrial classes" in London, which was to present the People's Charter to parliament.

RAF Hardwick

Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker, group commander, and Major John L. Jerstad, a former member of the group who had volunteered for this mission, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for action in the Ploesti raid.

REM rebound

Common to those who take certain sleeping aids, it is also often seen in the first few nights after patients with sleep apnea are placed on CPAP.

Salting the earth

Later accounts of other saltings in the destructions of medieval Italian cities are now rejected as unhistorical: Padua by Attila (452)--perhaps in a parallel between Attila and the ancient Assyrians; Milan by Frederick Barbarossa (1162); and Semifonte by the Florentines (1202).

Sommersdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Sommersdorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Soo Catwoman

She declined to appear in Julien Temple's The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, though her persona was portrayed by actress Judy Croll.

Stephen Rapp

In 2007, Rapp succeeded Desmond de Silva to become the third Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he directed the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and others alleged to have violated international criminal law during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Thalberg

Schlag bei Thalberg, a municipality in the district of Hartberg in Styria, Austria

The Modern Antiquarian

The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain is a book written by Julian Cope, published in 1998.

Upswept Hare

Bugs gets into the pool and realizes that he is not in his stream but thinks his surroundings are a mirage so he plays along by splashing around and singing "There's no place like home" but instead substituting Rome for home.

WPMR-LP

Previously the WPMR callsign (for "Pocono Mountain Radio") had been assigned to WPMR (960 AM, now WPLY) and WPMR-FM (107.9 FM, now WKRF) in Mount Pocono/Tobyhanna Township, Pennsylvania.